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...Sargeant Daniel Ahern said yesterday that the professor viewed mug shots at police headquarters but was unable to identify his assailant. The professor claimed, however, that he could make positive identification of the robber if he saw the robber again, Ahern said...
...Retiring Music Critic Winthrop Sargeant [Jan. 10] deserves an award of sorts for his incredible string of questionable judgments and false assumptions. His commendable lauding of Beverly Sills cannot begin to offset the remarkable prediction of future obscurity for Stravinsky and the naming of Richard Strauss as "greatest composer of the 20th century...
Needless to say, to be hated is the mark of both good and bad critics. Sargeant's black-white view of criticism is disturbing, and is as erroneous as his feeling that music criticism has not much of a future. As long as music exists, so will accompanying thought regarding its worth...
...reading your article on Winthrop Sargeant, I was once again reminded of critics' serious misunderstanding of twelve-tone and serial music. The twelve-tone system does not merely express violence but rather expresses the value of abstraction. If we feel violent when listening to a work by Schoenberg, we are assigning meanings to that work that are not really there...
...critics ever earned their bite as honestly as Sargeant. A child prodigy, he conducted a symphony orchestra at age ten, later spent six years as a violinist and horn player with several orchestras under a succession of conductors: Walter Damrosch, Willem Mengelberg, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Arturo Toscanini, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter and Clemens Krauss. Sargeant also composed music for modern dance groups and orchestrated Broadway shows, turned to critical writing at the Brooklyn Eagle, TIME, LIFE, and, in 1949, The New Yorker. Last week, at 68, Sargeant announced that at this season's end he will give up his aisle...